Wife to my high school sweetheart, boy mama, black belt and you guessed; a stay at home mom. 💙

Month: May 2017

I get it. Let me just say that first. I get the concept; a day to show your appreciation for the mothers in your life.

Do I believe that every day you should show your appreciation? Yes. But I also understand how easy it is to get lost in the days and sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesn’t. So having a designated day once a year to show your appreciation seems logical to me. But I’m ready to skip it.

Yep. You read it right. Cancel it for me. Count me out. Some how every year Mother’s Day ends up being a big let down for me.

So now that I’ve said that; let me say this:

I DO NOT HAVE HIGH EXPECTATIONS FOR MOTHERS DAY.

I don’t. I don’t expect to sleep in. Get breakfast in bed. A fresh bouquet of flowers, an edible arrangement, new jewelry, a closet full of clothes and a day of pampering.

In fact Mando has asked a handful of times what I want and I’ve always answered, “I don’t know.” Because saying “this is what I want.” Is usually a let down because A) I just don’t end up getting it. And B) because I don’t feel like that’s very thoughtful. I feel like Mother’s Day gifts should be special and thoughtful and to give a list of things I want on this “special” day just doesn’t seem right.

I don’t want any material items. Mainly I want a day with my family. Maybe a nap. But that’s shooting a little high. I want to take my kids to the park with my husband and spend time as a family. That’s it. That’s what I want.

But in the grand tradition of mothers days for me, the weekend has started off with Mando being a jerk and Nathan being a brat. And it’s just old. Old and tiring. And I’m over it.

So cancel Mother’s Day for me. I’m crossing it off my calendar and instead just aiming for the usual “okayish sunday.”

Okayyyyy so I’m really sucking at posting these days. I was hoping to post every workout I did this week, I’ll try to catch up now, if not at least post 2-3 and then finish posting the rest tomorrow.

I’ve been on top of my workouts all week and I was feeling really good up until today. I had the chance to go today but when I went to go get dressed to go I couldn’t find anything to wear. Typical woman problem, right? But, no, really. All the pants I had left were size small (I’m a medium now and I am ok with it.) all of the sports bras that fit my nursing boobies were already dirty and sweaty, and all of my tops were either too short or too tight and showed off too much belly. (The skin on my stomach still hasn’t snapped back 100% and I’m just not comfortable with it.) I asked Mando if it was ok if I went to Marshall’s instead of the gym to get a few new things and he said it was fine…$100 later…lol (and before you get judgey, YES, I asked my husband for permission. NO, not because he’s the bread winner, but because we COMMUNICATE and he would’ve done the same exact thing had he went off to the store with the intent to shop for himself. So 🙋🏼) so to end that little adventure from today, I’m super excited to go to the gym tomorrow and get my workout in.

I also took Nathan to a little workshop at Home Depot this morning. We met up with Mando’s sisters and his cousin Nova. This was the project.

I built it, (it required nails and a hammer) and he painted. He got another pin to put on his little Home Depot apron and was so happy. (He made a bunny basket last month with Mando.)

Ok, so now to catch up on the workouts from this week. Here’s Tuesday’s workout.

It’s a circuit, I did 12 reps of each workout, 3 rounds. Here’s the ab workout from that day as well: (Note: I found this ab workout online years ago, it was called “The fABtastic workout” so that’s what I’m sticking with.)

The fABtastic workout:

-1 minute plank

-15 bicycle crunches

-30 second side plank(right side)

-15 bicycle crunches

-30 second side plank (left side)

-15 reverse crunches

-15 hip ups

-1 minute v sit

After this is did the stairs and the sauna.

For Wednesday’s workout workout look at my post from 4.19, the workout that I used for my cardio days was called “The Spartacus workout” (again…not my name.) and it’s what I’m using for my Wednesday workouts plus the ab workout from my post on 5.1.

Thursday’s workout:

I do 12 reps 2 sets of each workout. Followed by the fABtastic workout and a 20 minute walk on incline on the treadmill.

Since Friday’s workout was short and sweet(but man did I feel it) here it is:

Like I said, it was quick, but good. I did change it a little though, at the end where it calls to start the cool down at the 16 minute mark, I did another 1 minute sprint, and then ran it out for the last 3 minutes. I also changed the speeds a bit, I ran at 4.0 for the warm up, and then for the jogs I ran at 4.5. I kept the sprint at 6.0 cause…that’s just fast enough already. I’ve got little legs…I can’t move any faster than that.

K so lookout for my post tomorrow for the workout I was supposed to do today. It should be a good one. 💪🏻👌🏼

If you have a little one you know the struggle of getting them to eat while they’re teething. Jacob cut his 2 central incisors at the same time. They started to come in right around the 6 month mark, and it’s been a battle to get him to eat food since then. In the past week he’s completely turned down food of any kind which means that he’s been wanting more bottles. Lucky me, my milk has dropped because I’m due to get a visit next week. (If you know what I mean.)

I tried different foods, feeding him different ways, but nothing has really worked.

I finally came across this online, and thought, what the heck do I have to lose? Turns out it’s perfect.

I tried it with him for the first time yesterday and he ate more food yesterday than he had in a week.

I think I’ve worked it down to 2 factors with him. The first being his teeth hurt. So the fact that he can chew on this to relieve some of the pain and he also gets food out is a win win. Second, I don’t think he likes baby food. I fully believe Jacobs trying to keep up with his brother and is going to try to bypass any “baby” phases he can. I’m trying to mix up foods for him, give him more flavor, I tried a teething biscuit with him yesterday and he loved it. So I feel like we’re heading in the right direction here.

Back to this Boon feeder thingy though, cause it’s amazing. It’s super simple to open up and put the food in. Easy to take apart and clean. I did try to put baby food in it and that was just a mess, bad call on my part. I’ve only tried fruit chunks in it so far, but I’m thinking of throwing in an avocado today and maybe steaming some carrots or squash to put in there. Look out for more posts on this cause I love it and I’ll definitely be updating.

It’s Mayyyyyy! So many fun things happening this month. Nothing too crazy like last month, just a few little gatherings. 🤗

K so I fell off pretttty hard last week. I got so caught up in all of Nathan’s birthday celebrations and goodies, we went to baby a baby shower/wedding on Saturday and another baby shower on Sunday, and on top of all that I only went to the gym twice. I swear, I gained 5 pounds last week. Not possible, you say? You didn’t see how I ate. Cookies, cake, donuts, cupcakes, PIZZA, ranch, CHOCOLATEEEEEE. It was bad.

But, I’ve started May off on a positive note. I was going to extend the 6 week workout 2 more weeks but I decided to end it at week 6(last week being week 6) and doing 2 weeks of just cardio/high intensity workouts. I’ve got it mapped out already.

Here’s today’s workout:

Run 400m(quarter of a mile)

15 squats

10 push-ups

20 kettle bell swings

*4 rounds

The goal with this is to keep the breaks to a minimum. Go straight from running into the workout, and right back to running. The treadmill at the gym only lets you pause the run for 2 minutes before it reset so I take that as a challenge. I can knock out the squats, push-ups and kb swings in a minute and 40 seconds, so I give myself 15 seconds to catch my breath, grab a sip of water and get my headphones back in.

Abs: 20 crunches

20 oblique crunches (right)

20 oblique crunches (left)

20 reverse crunches

20 bicycle crunches

20 second plank

After all this I did 10 minutes in the sauna. I also did really good with my eating today, so I’m feeling good. I’ll update tomorrow with the workout I did. ✌🏼